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OPERA: “Albert Herring”

Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 7:00am to Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 7:00am

Music Center Recital Hall (UCSC)

Presented by:

Music Department

Nicole Paiement conducts a chamber ensemble of members of the UCSC Orchestra as well as student singers in a fully staged production of Benjamin Britten's three-act comic opera from 1947. Directed by Brian Staufenbiel.

Performed in English with supertitles.

Albert Herring synopsis:

For years the straight-laced town leaders have chosen a sweet young thing to represent pure virtue at the annual Spring Festival. This year they can’t find a suitable girl, so instead they name as “May King” young Albert Herring, a timid clerk in his mother’s shop. When his buddies spike his punch at the coronation, Albert goes on an uncharacteristic bender and can’t be found the next morning — much to the dismay of the townsfolk.